The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-08 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE., The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market to -day were small. Both for red and white qualities the demand, however, was in a sluggish state, yet prices were Unaltered from Monday last. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was but mo derate. Millers operated cautiously, and a limited business Was transacted in all descriptions, at late rates. Ploating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at previous quotations. The supply of barley on offer was moderate. Generally speaking the trade ruled quiet, at late currencies. Malt was in slow request, at late rates. The market was well supplied with oats, and the demand ruled less active, The late advance in prices was, however, supported. Beans find peas ruled firm, at quite previous quotations. In flour a moderate business was transacted, on former terms, ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. .. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. Irish.. 1 / B gllsh.. 710 ],lBO ! 3,350 ' ; 530 ." _ 1 200 ... 310 1 2 _ 3,,530 / 30,710 1 75 sks, 2.540 brie. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets continue to be moderately supplied with town, and country-killed meat. On the whole the trade is Steady, at cur quotations. Per 81b. by the carcase. sdsd Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 2 kiddling do. .. 3 4 3 8 Prime large do. 3 10 4 0 bo. staalldo. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .. „ 3 2 3 10 erior mutton. 3 4 3 10 ad s 6 Middling mutton 4 0 4 8 Prime do . . 4 6 4 4 Veal Small pork 4 0 4 6 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. Scarcely any change has taken place in the value either of English or foreign hops since we last wrote. The sup lies on offer are but moderate, nevertheless sales for the most Part progress slowly, tgt previous quotations. Mid and East Rents £5 Os to £9 lOs per cwt. Weald of Kents 5 Os to 7 7s „ Sussex Yearlings 3 Os to 5 Os „ Bavari an 5 5s to 8 8s f 9 Belgian American COLONIAL. TEA.—A fair amount of business has been transoeteJ in Inost kinds, and at public sale full rates have been obtained for good descriptions. Sumo fine Japan green's were sold at a high figure. SUGAR.—The demand for raw sugar has been very limited, pending the alteration in the duties. Holders, however, have demanded an advance of 6d per cwt. for West India descriptions. COFTEE.—There has been a steady demand for moat descriptions, especially plantation Ceylon. In some de ecriptions, however, quotations may be quoted is to 2s per cwt. lower. RICE.—A moderate business has been done, and quota tions for find East India have been well supported. CO COA..--More activity has b-era apparent in the demand, 1111 d higher rates have been current for superior qualities of Trinidad. XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. T here is still a very brisk demand for money at the Bank of E ng l an d, i n th e op e n market, and in the Stock Exchange. Full rates are required for acco mmodation, and the immediate position of affairs is indicative of considerable firmness. The Bank of En g land return for the week to W ednesday is rather unfavourable, as will be seen "Y the movements exhibited in the subjoined a galsais as regards the bullion, notes in reserve, a nd other securities : Active Circulation • • Increase .. Bullion .. • . Decrease .. Rest • . Decrease •• •• Public Deposits Decrease .. Other Deposits.. .. £21,003,220 .. 593,695 .. 13,616,763 .. 546,756 .. 3,144,179 .. 740,736 9,818,880 .. 461,578 .. 13,348,299 Increase .. • • Seven Day and other Bills .. Increase • • • • Government Securities .. Decrease .. • • • • Other Securities .. .. 22 ) 853,453 Increase .. • • • • 654,083 Notes Unemployed .. .. • • 6 , 583,655 Decrease .. 1,066,875 About 200,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for transmission to the Brazils, but £12,000 in bar gold was taken into that esta blishment. „ .. 689,313 .. 625,694 .. 26,575 .. 11,273,056 The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, to be amalgamated with the Gutta Percha Company and Messrs, Glass, Elliot, and Co.'s manu factory, requires a capital of £1,000,000 (first issue 750,000), in shares of £2O each. The undertaking 18 to make an d ma i n t a i n li nes o f commun i cat i on , bo th submarine and on land, in every part of the World. The arrangement includes the assignment t o the company o f t h e l ease f or t h e su b mar i ne : l egraph between Malta and Alexandria, and the *kiezeindria, Cairo, and Suez Telegraph. Subjoined is a resolution provisionally adopted Y the committ ee o f th e Sock Exchange, with the view of arresting the rash speculation going on in t he shares of the new companies now almost daily i ntrod uce d The committee will appoint a set tling day for transactions in shares of a new coin- PnY if no allegation of fraud or misrepresentation o f s fraud has b een su bmitted to them, and provided 4facient scrip or shares be ready for delivery; but suc h settlement s h a ll b e s p e cial and shall not apply t bargains made previously to delivery of allot "lent letters ; no difference arising out of such bu rns shall un d er an y c i rcu mstances be allowed as Maims against a defaulter's estate." T he operations in the Foreign and Colonial Pro lice Market s d ur i ng the last day or two have been t° an avera ge ex t e nt as regards tea, which realised fu ll rates a t p u bli c sa les. Sugar, however, owing t 0 the uncertainty felt with regard to the alteration in the duties, has been neglected, although holders have demanded slightly enhanced prices for West In coffee the operations have been moderate, lti !erior qualities of colonial having given way 41 "Ilt ls. to 2s. per c w t. Cocoa, rice, fruit, and . 14al tPetre, have contiuned in fair request without ` u aterial change, while tallow has been rather in.- active, the dealings for both present and forward delivery resulting in a slight decline. We are requested -to state that, in consequence °f a lecture at the Royal Institution this evening, °II the Bonelli Te'legraph, the instruments cannot be seen after to-d ay at No. 7, Angel-court ; also that qtr, D. J. Jaffe, of the firm of Jae Brothers, Belfast a nd Dundee, has joined the board of directors of " 50 nelli's Electric Telegraph Company. The Bonelli c ompany's shares closed to-day at 11 prem. Toe object of the " Telegraphic Construction an d Mainten wee Company" is to unite the business of the Gutta Percha Company with the eatablish :tient of Met ssrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., and to make n d maintain telegraphic lines of communication, X l'ibnlarine and land, in. every part of the world. e t it 3 assert ained that the manufacture of cables 111 . be mama beneficially carried on in one esta blishmento than in two ; hence Messrs. Glass, Allot' and C o . h ave purc h as ed the plant, good -1„111' and works of the Gutta Percha Company , cad tr ansferred them at cost price to this corn ogny endnd this company acquires the whole rai both concerns for £lOO,OOO in fully the m UP shares. It thus comes into posses sion of 44 ftit algamated business, and is entitled to profits 4 1 , 1 7° 111 the Ist January last. There are also trans he the leases of eastern submarine telegraphs held °Y the firm. From the large profits hitherto ajou realised, and the prospect of a considerable exten effect° bubiaess, a very remunerative return is be t ed °h the capital. This is fixed at £1,000,000, th e i ssue is (If 42 first issue is to be £750,000, in 37,500 is a 0 each. The brokers are Messrs. Seymour stn d ° ' 411 d Messrs. Cazenove and Co. We under ftle:l4cl that th e cap i ta l s t oc k of this comp any h as ti 0 4 , 3: been subscribed for, and that the applies 'Lit will close on Monday next. Two O'CLOCK. t,i' mkt Paris thi s day, according to Mr. Reuter's 4 1.1113 e thc Three per Cent. Rentes were 66 f. 05 c. v . th er firm. fo r e ature of int eres t i s perceptible in the market f oth , ho Engli s h F un d s , w hi c h continues quiet at r 4 0:" quotations, and Consols are again 91 2 . for oth t , 31., end DU, 92 for the May account. Even the ap 40Partments of the Stock Exchange recently ba begins t o exhibit symptoms of lees firm- ness and of a smaller amount of business in pro. gress. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 4 ; Exchequer Bills, 73, 2s. die. ; India 5 per Cent s ., 105 1 ; do. 4 per C e nts., 991 ; Dabentures, 991 and Bonds ss. die. In the Foreign Market business is moderately active, and prices tend upwards. Mexican are 451- 46; Greek 241 4 ; Spanish Passive, 351 -1-; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, 711 74; do. Consolides 531 f-, ; Portuguese, 491 4 ; and Russian, 91Z 1, The operations in the Railway Share Market have been very limited, and prices have not varied to any important extent, with the exception of Metropolitan, which have advanced about £1 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive, without mateldal change as regards values. In Bank and Miscellaneous Shares the opera tions have been of a less extensive character, and prices have, with a few exceptions, shown less firmness. London and Westminster realise 921 94; Bank of London, 1701; Union of London, 491 50 ; and London Financial, 26'1 271. _ _ The current quotations for some of the principal new undertakings are subjoined :—London and Liverpool Hotel, 1i I prem.; Ottoman Financial, 11 prem. ; North Australian, 11 prem. ; Sabloniere Hotel, 1L- prem. ; Port Augusta Railway, to 4 prem. ; International Land Credit, 21 t prem. ; Imperial Financial, 61 7 prem.; Financial Corpora tion, 1/ 21 prem.; Thames Iron, 3 4 prem.; City Offices, 3, prem.; Credit Funnier, 66 74 prem.; Credit Mobilier, 44 5 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, May 5 92 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894' A.anuthes, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 23 & 3 per Cent 7 dis Ditto £500 Ditto £lOO and £200 dank England Stk, 41 per Ct. Ditto Account.. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ndia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1871.... 220 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1883 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 99a a Ditto bonds El,Ouo .. Ditto under £l,OOO 5 dis FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent. 18-58-60 • _ Ditto ' 1863 52 .. 881 Kilian 6 per Cent. Ditto 41 pei Cent Egyptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons. Ditto Account •9• • • 4 •• • . 244 i Ditto Coupons Ditto Account .. — Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway; 74 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 46 / 5f Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent • — New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. .. 30/ Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 41 per Cent .. Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account .. 491 / Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,' 3 _ . Ditto Account — Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid .„ pm Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ 81 9l Ditto 4i per Cent., 1850 .. 88i Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Sardinian 5 per C ent .... Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account 4 46k Ditto Passive Ditto Account 3sa f Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Ditto Account — Swedish, 4 per Cent — Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Atto Account 691 Ditto, £lOO Bonds ' — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1b62 Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds 72 Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1662 .. Ditto Account Dittoli per Cent _ Dividends on the above payable in Loud u Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f... Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. Li Guil 641 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f.... Ditto Account Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 67 61 Ditto Account Piedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f Ceruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 45. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Money Ditto April Account . ••• Ditto May Liverpool Cotton Market—This Days Market quiet. Sales about 5,000 bales. Week's sales, 46,060 bales, including 4,450 on speculation, and 7,270 for export ; actual export, 11,279 bales ; week's imports, 58,319 bales. Quotations —Middling Orleans, 26i ; do. Mobile, 26k; do. 26; estimated fair Egyptians, 261 ; Surats, 101 24. Estimated stock-309,560 bales. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, April B.—Wind this day at noon—East ; moderate breeze and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, Aprit 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived — Helioni, from Callao for Dunkirk. OFF PORTSMOUTH, April 7.—Arrived —Clara Louise, from Buenos Ayres for Antwerp. FALMOUTH, April 7.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Queen of the West, from Boston. PLYMOUTH, April s.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Chalmers, from Foo-ehow-foo. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, April 7—Maria, from Aalborg. Arrived, April B—Waterloo, steamer, from Rotterdam-- London, steamer, from Uddewalla. Sailed—Seine, steamer, for Bculogne—Lord J. Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed—. Triton, ship, for Litherick—Johann Daniel, for Kurrachee—Latona, screw steamer, for Genoa—all irom London. MR. STANSFELD.—ThO Patrie alludes as follows to the closing act of the Stansfeld incident.-- ,, Mr. Stansfeld has done justice to himself and resigned his post in the Administration. Let us acknow ledge to the honour of England that he has fallen under the verdict of public opinion. It is now a settled thing that a man cannot call himself Maze zini's friend without incurring the reprobation of all honest men. That is our opinion on this side of the Channel. We are charmed to see that it is likewise that of the whole of the English people." The Pays points out that :Mr. Stansfeld has ended by doing what he should have done at the outset. The Debuts describes the hon. member for Halifax as giving way before the storm which he had so indiscreetly brought down on himself. CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRES.—The annual con certs of this corps, in the Cambridge enclosure, near Spring Gardens, St. James's Park, will commence this afternoon and continue daily from 6,30 till 8.30 pa th THE LASH FOR GAROTTERS.—The sentences passed at the York Assizes, which closed on Wednesday, are remarkable for the number of instances in which the lash has been ordered, 30 lashes each having been adjudged, in addition to imprisonment, in the sentences of 10 prisoners convicted of garotte and other robberies with violence. MESSRS. COXWELL AND GLAISHER'S BALLOON ASCENT.—The balloon which ascended on Wednes day from the Woolwich Arsenal Gas Works alighted a little before dusk on the grounds of the Marquis of Camden, near Sovenoaks. The height ascended did not much exceed two miles. The balloon passed through a cloud a mile in thickness into brilliant sunshine, the atmoshero below being somewhat foggy. The aeronauts did not go beyond the reach of sounds from the ground. Tho goat which they took up did not manifest any symptoms of alarm, but re mained quiet as if under a sense of perfect security. The bal'oon was two-thirds full, and contained 60,000 cubic feet of gas. Le Temps gives us a very graphic description of Garibaldi's arrival at Southampton, from the pen of Louis Blanc, who calls it " a spectacle of incalculable influence and astounding grandeur." BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing , har, Hallways Paid. Price. Business done luu .1.. t !antic &$t Lawrenct. all 60 62 bk 1 tlom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind ice 102 3 / 4 103 1021 • t Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New . 8 p 1 p 20 Do. E. Shares.. 20 3 / 4 Buffalo and Laae Huron all 54 6 10 Do. Preference .... all 7 4 8 4 fOO Buffalo,Brant,&Godria 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1372 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 at Dlcutta.&S.Eastn.(Ltni; 100 101 (03 at Cape Town & Dock Scrii 100 99 101 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. Sp. t 100 1044 1054 stook East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 104 3 / 4 1051 20 Do. do. (I Ext l5 p 20 Do. do. II do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada (Cu 194 20 3 / 4 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 75 77 76 3 / 4 100 Do. do. deferred all 69 63 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 66 68 100 Do. do. deferred all 51 63 100 Do. 3d ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 40 412 100 Do. 4th Pref. stoo all 26 28 100 Do. do. deferred all 22 15 stock GLlndtaPenin.gua.sp.o 100 103 104 103 3 / 4 20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 I Do. January, 1862 stock Gt. South.of ludia(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 103 104 20 3 / 4 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 10 3 / 4 204 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 92 94 100 Do. 5 3 / 4 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 81 8 3 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 iP stock Madras guar., sp. o. 100 lot 103 1021 stock Do. 1 3 / 4 p. o. Extension 100 97 99 stock Dc. 1 3 / 4 d 0........ 100 92 94 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 —•— stock Ylelb.Corp. 6p. cf. Buds. 100 50 Melb. & ilobson's Bay. all 57 53 100 Do. 7p. 51ortg. Bds. all 20 Newlllunswiok &Canda Class A and B. all 3 5 4.lll.C'da spo lst pt bds 100 82 14 stock Soinde ..........) (100 104 105 stock 1)o. Delhi.. I • • ' 100 1 0 14 1 0 24 1 03 r:I4.J lu Do. d 0........... 2 4 ip at Do. Punjaub (a t all 1024 103 3 / 4 Do. Do. ........ ,IUU stock Do. indus.St. Flo.) j X100_97 93 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. tAto.6 or. 6 p.c.J ,SzJ 7 / 1 ) 1877-84 • . lOO 101 103 1(2 3 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 160 102 104 Do. dp. o.Mar. & Sept. 100 100 102 Do. fp. o. Jan.6tJuly. lOt' 89 al 89 3 / 4 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 88 90 Cape G. Hope, 6 p 0,187:1 100 106 108 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 110 112 Do. 1890 100 111 113 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 109 111 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 112 114 111 3 / 4 IMauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 !Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 108 110 N.B.Gov. 6 p.o.Ja.&Jul) 100 102 lel 103 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Om. 100 N. S. W. G ov. 5 p c.,lSt r 100 , 99 3 / 4 100 3 / 4 -. Do. p. to Vic 100 99 10. Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 160 99 100 991 ,New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 109 111 ,Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. steriing„ 1575 lOO 104 106 Queensland Gcv. 6p. C lOO - IS. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up lOO 109 111 - IVic.Gov. 6 p.o. Ja.&Jul) 100 DO. io s p.a an.&00.. 100_ tosi jotif Ai 1094 i id 36 B 7 550 660 57i 72i 311 31 7 74 4} 41 10 11 . 3 34 3/ 36 si 9 85 37 4 41 t 19 21 61 61 i dl Sa t 95 14 2 2 21 41 5i 41 43 440 100 50 55 32 84 ,$ 19 10 11 20 22 215 125 87i 928 35 40 2i 3 13i 114 190 200 21 24 2i 21 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER. This company require 48 houses in the parish of St. Sepulchre, Snow-hill, situate in Green Dragon, Fox, and Knot, St. George, and St. John's-courts, consisting chiefly of houses of an inferior class and in bad condition, and esti mated to displace 230 persons ; but some of the houses, they state, will not be required. The Crystal Palace new lines, connected with the above company, will require 141 houses in St. Mary, Lambeth, displacing 705 persons ; 73 in Clap ham, displacing 375 persons ; and 55 in Croydon, 275 per sons, or a total of 8,355 persons. THE Staki, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENIING, APRIL 8, 1864. SHARE MARKETS This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOh.S. . 4 harel Railways. „aid.' Closing Business Price. done. air., Vol., and Str.Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleaf.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwhli Do A A gets no div I Do. B till (3p ap an. has been paid to B.; Dublin & Belfast June., Dun.,Perth,ilt Ab. June.' iEdinburgh & Glasgow.l Ulasg. and S. Western.; Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern ' Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. siook, ILanemhice & Yorkshire' London and Blaokwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So?..th Western Man., Shef., & Linooln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares... Metropolitan ( Midland Do New . Do Binning. & Derby Kid. (it. W. of Irelanu Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purohasi Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London I Do New North Staffordshire .. N. and S. W. J unction. Scottish Cedtral ,Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Soot. Mid. stock.. 'Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union .... 'South Devon ... ;South Eastern South Wales IS. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok. 'Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1806 Taff Va1e............. Do B Do C Ulster Do - I Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim, Waterford At Kilkenny. West Cornwati W. Hartlepool Har.&R ' West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Eordard 8 8J 8i 9 83 f 5 118 119 35 37 16 17 10 92 101- 106 461 ,7k 64 7; 1284 1206 13u4 1316, 130 132 91 0 6{4 65 IC9I 1091 67 (9 1031 104,3 41 45 1091 1094 98 99 53 54 1,7 118 1281 12S. 98 100 52 63 25 '46 101 102 66 57 88i 89 123 131 1i 2a 78 79 luf 11% 121 123 41 43 93 100 53 61 33 85 90i 9t 101 IC3 Si 9i 37 38 9i 10 t, 8 Bio 165 17,i 5 7 t , l 3 t pl 94 96 INDIAN CARRYING COMPANY . The report of the directors states that the progress of the company's affairs continues to be satisfactory. Of the new shares offered to the proprietors upwards of 20,090 have been taken up and paid on by them, and the available capital as it now stands will, in the directors' opinion, suffice for the present for the requirements of the company. Since the last meeting letters have been received from the chairman of the company, Sir M. Stephenson, who has been visiting the three principal seats of the company's operations, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta. He expresses himself satisfied with the arrangements and the prospects of the company in India. The accounts for the half-year ending 31st Dec. last, so far as they have been received, show gross returns in the three Presidencies contrasting very favourably with those of the preceding half. years, and the directors have reason to ex pect that the result of the current half year will prove at least as satisfactory. As the complete accounts for the pe riod are not yet in their possession, the directors have not considered it judicious to propose to the shareholders to make any increase on this occasion in the dividend. They therefore recommend that a dividend at the same rate as cm the previous occasion, viz , 6 par cent per annum, be de clared for the half year ending Dec. 31, 1863. In order to enable the directors to lay before the shareholders the result of the working made up to June 30 and Dec. 31 respectively preceding the half-yearly meetings, the direc ors, with the advice of the company's solicitors, have prepared special articles for the regulation of the company, under which the future general meetings can be held in the months of May and November, or at such other times as may be found ex • pedient. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the committee of which Mr. Scourfield is chair man resumed its sittings, and passed the Bill for the Halifax and Orenden Junction Railway, which it is prepo4ed to in corporate with a capital of £90,000, and to raise £30,000 by loan, with power to create a 5 per cent, debenture stock for a line of between two and three miles from a double junction with the Lancashire and Yorkshire to the joint passenger station of that and other railways at Halifax. The clauses having been settled, the committee proceeded to consider the merits of the North-Eastern Company's Bill for a line between York and Doncaster by four branches, the first of 11 'Riles, from York, crossing the river Ouse, to Selby; the second of 14 miles, from Selby to the Great Northern at wston, with two other smaller breaches, for which purpose the company propose to raise further sums of £333,000 by new ordinary 41 per cent. preference stock, and £llO,OOO by loan. Mr. H. Thonipson, chiirman of the company, Lord Wenlock, a considerable landowner on the line, and other witnesses were examined in favour of the project, which is opposed by the West YorKshire, West Riding and other neighbouring companies. . _ The committee on the new metropolitan railways, of which Lord Stanley has been appointed chairman, and which was to have met on the 11th, has been postponed until the 18th inst, TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1864. 1863. 1864. 1883. 2 ,001 1.049 734 6,0 1,734 1, 64'2 5,07 i 6,065 17,340 35,793 Belfast and N. Counties 136 Belfast and Comity Down 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B Bristol and Exeter l2l} Caledonian Cockermouth& Working - ton Si Cork and Bandon 2O Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l Cork and Youghal •• • 32 Cornwall 651 Deeside l7 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 Dublin and Meath -, el yli 121 i 245 322 311 169 199 .438 38i 1,003 1,30 202 247 1,274 1,287 1,460 1,4 7 Dub. & Wicklow and Wext Edinburgh and Glasgow 173 Furness, &c 5O Glasgow & South-Western . , 198 Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union 663 Great Northern 353 48} 169} 5) 198 663 851 Great North of Scotland 6B Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7li Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 373k Great Western 10561 Inverness & Aberdeen Junc B6} Inverness & Perth Janction 119} sish North-Western 145 ......,... _..,.. Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 Limerick and Ennis... 241 Limerick and Foynes 26i Llanelly 4O London & North-Western London and Blackwall st ...... fit 320 10564 86; 145 395} ----- London & South-Western 4501 Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2611- London, Chatham, dr, Dover 72} Do. Metropolitan Extension 1 0 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 421 l!dan.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh 239} &tanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 91 Maryport and Carlisle 2B Metropolitan 3t Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 Midland Gt.Westn. of 'rind 27l lMonkland Nonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee ..... . N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 5 N or th London 9 254 N or th Statlbrdshire Oswestry and Newton... sr Rhymney St. Helen's Canal & Railway Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern Somerset and Dorset South Devon ........... South-Eastern Taff Vale Ulster .............. Vale of Clwyd. ....... .• Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall W. Hartlepool arbr.& Rail W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt Whitehaven Junction Whitehaven & Furness Jun FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam Austrian Belgian Eastern Junction sr. Bo Ida, & en. India 461 11799 2,281 1,637 7,769 6,947 3,005 2,986 8,496 8,515 31,527 27,302 29,616 27,737 1,669 2,061 .)82 510 8,467 7,615 61,974 55,675 19i 52 89 138 66 75i 57 105} 10 32} 31 77 27A 52 7 13 35 1,602 1,771 38,047 31,230 19i 187 97 132 538 553 97,181 81,679 1,818 1,666 23,692 20,147 21,367 16,179 5,611 3 225 1525 320 ..6i Bombay, Baro, , 185 i Buffalo and Lake Huron l6li Detroit and Milwaukee......, 189 Dutch Rhenish Eastern Bengal Eastern of France 1135 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 5 3 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southeen of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madras Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 6 50 Northern of Canada ... ..... Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn l BO5 Paris and Orleans 1614 18,185 15.176 1,718 1,108 1,601 1,374 2.136 1,981 46,971 39,607 4,007 4,2.8 4101 11,929 10,996 1079. 57,181 19,901 9 3,415 3,107 254 8,453 7.802 42 1,120 1,005 19i 1,014 997 52 - - 89 4,764 4,46: 188 4,;60 4,730 39/ 754 3.726 3,253 306 21,523 17,070 57 105 i 2,497 2.225 10 175 2v7 251 2,242 2,030 31 169 464 77 1,216 1,232 27k 714 822 52 3,513 4,423 7 1,108 875 1,103 773 1,338 1,045 315 286 3,8 i 6 2,343 2,66) 2,0:1 22,583 16,200 19,895 14,542 12,683 9,139 4,387 1,661 369 422 Pernambuco 77i Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian .. 1527 Southern of France ..... ..... 77 0 Victorian 196 Welland West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France 481 1713 1434 3,96) 3,577 2,225 2,025 51,590 47,513 1,000 851 276 225 1468 680 196 1,267 1,411 1434 1,5 , 0 52,292 45,;00 14,586 10,443 1,017 952 Ban k o f England Return,•_Last Evening. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 6th day of April, 1864 : ISSUE DEP LP.TIVIENT. Notes issued .4...X27.586,875. Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,936,875 Silver Bullion .... £27,586,6 75 Proprietors' tal 14,553 .000 R es t Public Deposits (in cluding Exche capDi.ANl{LNG D Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commls missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) 9.818,880 Other Deposits 15,318, 299 Seven Day and other Bills 525,091 M. £27,586,875 April 7, 1881. Deadincluding EPARTUrN T . Government Seal- Vp nuity) . eightAn- Other ... £11,273,056 Securities 22,5..3,453 Notes Gold -------- 6583 ' 655 Silver 079,888 Coin - ........... £41,390,052 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. HER MA JESTY'S SHIP MAGPIE ASHORE AT GALWAY.—GALWAY, Monday. — Her Majesty's morn ing,ship Magpie en during th her assistance. She is expected to be g o t off to - night, being w e fo t g a . sho The re on steamer Crab am er I Roversla nd,o has gone down to tl Monday stripped of everything movable to lighten her, as the sea is running high. Galway, Monday Night.—Her Majesty's gnu boat Magpie, which was ashore at Crab Island, is ex pected to be got afloat to-night with slight damage. 'IHE ORATORY.—Mr. Newdegate will bring for ward his motion relative to " the secret burial ground of the Oratory" in the House of Commons to night; basing it, we believe, on a petition disclosing very curious facts, as to the doubtful registration of burials, changes of name of tombstones, and wills made under spiritual advice. He will move for a select committee. THE PAMPERO CASE. —On Monday Lord Ormi dale heard parties on a motion by Mr. Gifford for the Lord Advmate, for an order on Messrs. Thomson, engi• neers, Glasgow, and others, to deliver up the contents of certain boxes now in the hands of the sheriff clerk of Glas gow, and consisting of models of the Pampero, equipments of the vessel, and furnishings, being uniforms, accoutre ments, &c,, to be used as evidence at the ensuing trial. Mr. Gifford, in the course of his argument in support of his motion, said it would probably be followed by an applica tion for a search-warrant to compel the recovery of those articles. Mr. Clark and Mr. Shand, on behalf of the owners and builders, objected to the motion, maintaining that it was unprecedented in a civil cause to grant such a motion in name of a diligence. The Lord Ordinary took the application to avizandum.—Scotswan. It appears that the brougham of Admiral Hall was stand ng in New Bond-street, when the coachman, Mr. Smith, of 3, Earl-street, Kensington, saw the prisoner leaving the brougham with the cape in his hand, which he was busily rolling up. The coachman immediately pursued him, and he was taken into custody. 4,045 3 ' 896 Th e p r i son er was remanded. 1,6,1. 993 TIIAIkIES. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE Or ASSAULT.—Joseph Ro senthal, a foreign Jew, who carries on the business of a clothier and outfitter, at No. 189, High-street, Shadwell, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting Mary Maria Rice, a little girl nearly eight years of age. Mr. William Cooke, a solicitor, defended the prisoner. The child, who gave her evidence with great readiness and simplicity, is the child of poor parents. Her father is in Americo, her mother is dwelling on the " ruins" in Ham's-court, Ratcliff. The girl who is very little, but remarkably intelligent, said that she and her little brother were on their way home to tea yesterday afternoon, and were met by the prisoner in Ratcliff-highway. He gave her and her brother each a cake. He gave her brother a penny, and told him to go and see the fire. He gave her a farthing, and said he would take her to see the fire, He took her to a house where he lives. He took her into a room. There was no one else there. He put her across his knee, and took a piece of rag and spat upon it twice, and rubbed it on her person. Mr Paget—Anything else ? Witness—NO ; nothing else, sir. Mr Cooke cross-examined the little creature very in geniously, She said she did not go to school, or to any church or chapel. She did not know the time. She be lieved it was about 4 o'clock. Her father was an engine driver. Her mother went to ladies' and gentlemen's houses to work. Her mother had not come with her. She said she had no business in the court. Nicholas Rice, a boy oged 10 years, confirmed the evi dence of bis sister as to meeting with the prisoner, and stated that as he returned to the prisoner's house and put his foot in the shop he saw his little sister across the pri soner's knee, He gave the prisoner the biscuit he had bought. The prisoner said he did not like it, and sent him for a second. When he brought the second biscuit the prisoner said that would do very well. His sister was then seated alongside the prisoner, who sent him out again and told him to go and see where the fire was. HIS sister went with him. She would not stop any longer. Directly they left the house his sister made a complaint to him. He took his sister bark after looking at the fire, and told the prisoner there was a chimney on fire in a private house. The pri soner gave him a half-penny and he went home with his sister. In cross-examination by Mr. Cooke, the boy said he did not go to school. He stopped at home to mind his sister. His sister told her mother when she came home. He told his uncle, who called for the police. After some further evidence, Mr. Cooke addressed the magistrate. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial. The proprietor of the hotel at Malta where Gari baldi and his suite put up refused to receive any remunera • lion declaring that he felt onl y too proud to have had such an ill u strious man as the General for his guest. At the in stance of Colonel Chambers, however, he was compelled to accept payment of his bill. THE _RECENT OUTRAGE AT LIVERPOOL.—Dr. Rowe, who was so savagely beaten by the young men Brice and Scott was yesterday a little better, though still in a very weak and dangerous condition. His injured leg canoes intense pam, and materially interferes with the repose which is so necessary for his lungs, which have been very much congested. The doctors have strong hopes of saving his life, but state that even if they succeed he will always be an invalid. TUE SON OF QUEEN POMARE, heir presumptive of Tahiti, has come to France to study two curious things in combination, namely, cathedral music and military matters —the high roads to civilisation according to Tahitians. SECOND► EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. EPSOM RACES.—THTs DAY. WATERLOO PLATE. Suburban Practitioner 2 Coronet - Fourteen ran. NEW TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Friday Lemonade Gontran Twelve ran. ;;f;;'- LATEST BETTING. METROPOLITAN STAKES. 4to 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken freely) sto 1 agst Joco (offered) 7 to 1 bar two (offered) RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. APRIL. Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Llanboldy Newcastle and Gateshead 14 Knighton Liverpool Hunt Club 15 Lewes Spring l9 Cardiff Newmarket First Spring 25 AY. Redditch l6 Bath Manchester (Summer Harpenden Epsom Chester York Spring Salisbury l2 Blarlon Radcliffe Ju Wye .... 1 Maidstone 3 Ascot .. Hampton Newton Odiham Bibury Beverley 22 Stockbridge Chelmsford 2B New Forest Hunt 2B Ne wcastle-on- Tyne .. Worcester (Summer) 30 Ipswich LY. Newmarket July Carlisle Pontefract Abingdon Cambridge .. .. 12 Liverpool July Stamford Nottingham Winchester l9 Southampton .. 2O Chesterfield King's Lynn Goodwood Brighton .. 2 Brighton Club Lewes Huntingdon . . 9 Wolverhampton Reading Egham Oxford lB Weymouth 1 Warwick September 6 Leicester .. 8 Bridgwater Doncaster .. Bedford .. 4 Northallerton 6 Newmarket Second Oct lO 1 Lincoln Gloucester Newmarket Houghton 24 :MBER. NoVE: Leamington &War. Hunt 22 Worcester Autumn .... 1 Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14 IRISH. APRIL. Kildare Hunt Curragh County Louth 2O, 21 POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH.STREET. COMMITTAL WITHOUT FINES FOR SAVAGE ASSAULTS ON PARK CONSTABLES.—John Porricott, a rough fellow, was charged before Mr. Knox with disorderly conduct in Kensington Gardens and assaulting two of the park con stables. Benjamin Sims, park-constable, No. 40, said that on the previous afternoon he had his attention called to the pri soner by a lady, who said that she had been frightened by the prisoner ruthing up to her aad throwing his arms about. He watched the prisoner and saw him annoy some gentlemen, who were obliged to leave the path in consequence. He told the prisoner that he had better leave the gardens, when he began squaring up to him. He succeeded in getting the prisoner to the Serpentine bridge, when two other park constabies came to his assistance, and while taking the prisoner, who had been drinking, across Hyde-park, he violently kicked two of the constables. They were then obliged to get the stretcher and strap the prisoner doss n before they could get him to the station. Edward Robinson, park constable, No. 41, said that while taking the prisoner across Hyde-park, and just as he passed the Magazine Barracks, the prisoner gave him a dreadful kick on tho inside of the thigh which had almost disabled him that morning from walking. . . Richard Nuke, park constable, No. 43, proved receiving a severe kick near the groin from the prisoner. Mr. Knox said the prisoner had made a nice job of it. He might have cost the two constables their lives. Noke said the prisoner insulted everybody he came near, and besides the kick he gave him in the thigh, kicked his hand. Prisoner remarked that all he could say was that he was very sorry, Mr. Knox said that was all very well, but the prisoner, a fellow with a pair of boots fit for a Cornish wrestler, had kicked two men who were only doing their duty, and if the kick had been an inch higher he might have been before him for murder. He should commit the prisoner, without the option of a fine, for two months' hard labour—a month for each assault. CARRIAGE ROBBERY.—Richard Manners, 8 lad, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a cloth cape, the property of Admiral William Hall, from a brougham in New Bond-street. BRITISH MI. Cambrian Consol. Gold Puhflord Amalgamated Devon G. Cone. (T avist , East Bassett (Illogan) 1, East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon. East Cara Brea... E. trrl Russel (Tavistk.; ( . lairri..6o.it.Auhyii(Gwen , Great South Tolgus G. Wheat Vor (lielston, I !4renville I tierc•d's-Foot 1111101;ton Downs I Ps Lady Bertha 'Margaret (Uny Lelact Marke Valley.. M yndy Iron Oro (Lim ; Sew Seton North Downs N. WWI Basset (111o4an North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blaze) I 'rovidenee (Uny Lelnt.,l South Caradon(St.Cleer, S. Cara Brea (Illog - an) I S.Wheal Fran. (Illog - au, Stray Park 'Tamar Silv..t Lead Min. fin Crort West Basset (I llogan) W Cr radon (Liskeard) West Seton Whey I Basset (Mogan) Wheal Buller (Redruth) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) WhealLudcott Wheal Mary Ann ;Men ) Wheal 3eton . . Wheal Treiawney (Lis.); Wheal Union 1.14.0 3.4.0 8.9.0 581 17s (1.16. t , 8.12 4. , 8.01 2.8.6 9 4 4.3.0 3.1.0 2.6.9 10.0.7 118.18.91 , 30.17.6 2.0.6 3.5. S 8 68i 7 3.17 RES. PREFERENCE S Great Western Orig. 4i per cent. pf., 93 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 97 Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 33} JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Alliance (lim.), 58 Ditto, new, 40 Anglo Austrian, 711 a Australasia, 711 Ditto, new, 471 Bank of Egypt, 291 Bank of London. 170 Bank of utago, lira., 41 Bank of Queensland'(lim), 21.1 Bank of New Zealand. 151 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 91 81 British and Californian, lira., 71 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 42 Colonial, Rm., 414 Consolidated Bank, Urn., 113 Continental, lim., 161 East London, Um., 81 Ditto, new, 8 1 English and Irish (lint), 17k 4 English and Swedish, Rm., 131 European Bank, lira., 11/ 12 Hindustan, China, and Japan (11m.), Ditto, new, issued at 2 pm., 18 Imperial Bank (lira.), 42 Ditto, new, 26 / Land Mortgage Bank of India, Um., 4/ London Joint Stock, 44f 4 5 London and Northern (lim.), 218 in London and South Atrican, - 2el London and South American, Um., 91 London Bank of Scotland, lira. 181 London and Brazilian dim.), 41 London, Birm , and S. Staffordshire, Rm., 20 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 2? London and Comity, 62 London and South-Western (Um.), 23 1 • London and Westminster, 92 # Metrop. and Prem. Bank (lira.), 30 Mexican, lint, Scinde, Punjaub. and Delhi, lim., 121 Ditto, new, 12 Union of Australia, 55/ Dit:o, new, 321 / Union of London, 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 211 1 Commercial Union Insurance), 91 Contract Corporation, lira., 6} Credit Fonder, 121 Gen. Crc dit and I , lnance of London, Um., 101:90 11 Hudson's Bay, 191 1: Imperial Financia', lira., 111 12 I Indian Carrying (lira), 1/ lnterngtional Financial Society, 121 11i Joint •stock Discount, lira., Land Securities, lim., 5 1 London Financial Association, lira., 24 Ditto, new, issued at 4 pm, 161 London, Italian, and Adriatic Steam, 21 Londn Provincial Marine; 41 / madras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto, new, 201 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, 1im.421 Mercantile Credit Association, lira., 151 Natal Land and Colonization Company, lira., 5/ National Discount Company, him., 131 Ditto, new, issuedlat 5 pm , 5t North British Australasian, Panama, N, Zealand, and Aust. 7i 44f 5 109/ 98) 531 I'.Bl 18 19 UST. Dover York August Yarmouth Plymouth Lichfield 29 Stockton Devon and Exeter Derby ,MBER. Brecon .. 19 Richmond Monmouth Manchester Autumn Newmarket First October 27 IBER. SEPT] OCT , IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS --Last Evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at the usual hour. THE BOMBARDMENT OF SONDERBURG. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY drew the attention of the noble earl the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to the tele gram stating that Sonderburg had been bombarded by the Prussians without any previous knowledge to the inhabi tants. He could not say the statement was true. He hoped it was not, but if it was, it was one of the most out rageous acts ever perpetrated, not only in civilized, but un civilized nations. He trusted that if such was likely to be repeated, the British fleet would be at once despatched to put a stop to such cowardly and most terrible atrocities. Earl RUSSELL said he had seen the telegram, and he had taken steps to know whether it was true. In the course of a feu days he should be in the possession of correct in• formation, and until that time he must defer giving any opinion on the subject. DENMARK. Earl GREY asked the noble lord whether, when the noble lord, not now in his place, brought forward his motion with respect to Denmark, he would take the same objection to a discussion on the subject, similar to that he did previous to the Easter holidi.ys, and whether he would object to a discussion being taken in the early part of the correspondence on the subject that had been laid on the table. Earl RUSSELL said he could not now say that papers were to be laid on the table or negotiations were now going on, because all the Pcwers had agrecd to a conference. He should not object to a discussion, neither did he think it desirable to separate the correspondence in order that different parts of it might be sepirattly discussed. THE LEASES AND SALE-; OF SETTLED ESTATES ACT. ENCLOS URE OF HAMP STEAD-HEATH. Lord CRANWORTH moved the secund reading of this bill, which he said was merely for the purpose of improving an act of Parliament passed some eight years ago which enabled certain estates to be improved by granting b = uilding leases. The Earl of MALMESBURY approved of the bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR also thought the bill would simplify matters which now were left in doubt by the former bill. The bill was read a second time. • mALr FOR ANIMALS BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. COURT OF CHANCERY BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed, CONVEYANCE &e„ IRELAND BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS--Last Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Finchley, Willesden, and Acton Railway—Haslingden and Rawtenstall Water—and Land Securities Company. The order for committing the Colne Fishery Bill was read and discharged, and the bill was withdrawn. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. BRAND a writ was ordered to issue for the election of a member for Fyfe, in the room of Mr. James Erskine Wemyss, deceased. BREECH-LOADING RIFLES. Mr. ONSLO W asked the Under Secretary of State for War, whether his attention has been called to the vast superiority of the Prussian breech-loading rifles in the Danish campaign, as described in the letter of the Times' correspondentfrom Sonderburg ? The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he had no reason to believe that the breech. loading rifles in question were superior to those given out to our own army, and it was necessary to give the latter a fair trial. THE BUDGET. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose at 20 minutes to 5 o'clock to make his annual financial state• ment, the house having gone into committee of ways and means. The right hon. gentleman, who was received with cheers, said : Mr. Massey—With a view to gather fully the purport of the figures which I am about to submit to the house, it may be well that we should notice in the first in- stance, though in very few words, the particular ciroum- stances which have affected the condition of the country. In the financial year 1862-3 we had but an indifferent liar• vest. Ireland was suffering under lamentable depression, and Lancashire had been afflicted beyond all example. In the year 1863-4, on the contrary, England at least was blessed with a harvest of unusual abundance ; the distress of Ire land was in some degree mitigated, at least as regards the consuming powers of the country and the low price of grain; and as respects Lancashire, the distress which was there suffered had been very consider, bly reduced, although it still continued in a condition far below that of its usual prosperity and vigour. Upon the whole, therefore, sir, after considering on the one hand the advantages, and, on the other hand, the drawbacks of the year, we may perhaps arrive at the conclusion that circumstances did not differ ma terially from these of an average financial year. Sir, with that brief preface I proceed to lay before the committee the statement which I have to make. And, first, as respects the financial year which has just expired. The expenditure of that year, as it was es timated on the 16th of April, 1863' was £67,749,000, But there were augmentations, chiefly in consequence of the New Zealand war, and partly in consequence of payments for the Scheldt toll which were made during the present session, which raised the amount to £68,281,000. The actual expendi ture, however, under the authority of Parliament was only £67,056,000, or less by nearly a million and a quarter than the sums which the various departments have been autho rised to lay out, As respects the army, its estimates amounted to £15,469,000, but its actual expenditure was no more than £14,638,000, and this although a war has been unhappily raging in New Zealand, which cannot be consi dered to have added less, and may perhaps be esti mated to have added more, to the military expenditure of the country than half a million of money. The votes of the navy were £10,736,000, and the expenditure was very nearly the same, viz., £10,821,000. The miscellaneous services authorised by Parliament were £7,805,000, and the expen diture £7,702,000. And here, sir, it may, perhaps, be well that I should stop for one moment to disabuse the mind of some poqion of the house of an impression which has gone abroad as to the constant and rapid increase in the miscel laneous estimates of the country. The miscellaneous ser- vices for the year 1859-63 amount to £7,721,000; for the year 1863.64, to £7,702,000; and the estimates for the pre sent year amount, as they now lie upon the table, to £7,628,000. Upon the whole, therefore, this portion of the public expenditure has now for some time been about sta tionary, for the tendency to decrease—the decrease shown being £93,003—is too small to state as a fact of much igni fiaance. There is, however, another item of civil expendi ture which was at one period viewed with peculiar and just jealousy by the house. I mean that called the packet estimate. In the year 1860-61 the house was called upon to vote for that estimate £1,069,000. I need not say that it is an estimate which it is difficult to operate upon, inas much as it takes place under contracts that subsist for considerable terms of years. The estimate which we propose to submit for the prevent year will not amount to more than £883,000, showing a reduction of £186,000 within the last four years. (Hear, hear.) Now, sir, it is desirable that the house should understand what is the state of our expenditure as it has appeared in the last year, in comparison with the expenditure of former and recent years. I now give it as it appears in the exchequer accounts, only placing to the debit of each year the sums of money which are called "excesses," and which, in the exchequer account, appear of a later year than that to which they properly refer. Taking that view, our expenditure was, in the year 1862-3, £69,302,000, and in 1863-4 it was £67,056,000, showing a decrease of £2,246,000. In 1861-2 it was £70,838,000 ; and the decrease, estimated in the same manner, would be £8,782,000. In 1860-1, when the China charges were very heavy, the expenditure was £72,504,000; and the expendi ture of the year just expired, when compared with that sum, shows a decrease of £5,448,000. It I go back to 1859-60, which may be called the first of the years of high expendi ture, we spent £70,017,000 ; and the expenditure of 1863-4, as compared with 1859-60, shows a diminution of .£2,961,000. But, in order to come more accurately at the state of this important portion of the case, it is necessary to take into view two circumstances. On the one hand, wa have in curred of late years certain charges for fortifications, and on the other hand, both our expenditure and revenue have in cluded, during the past year, a considerable amount, not less than £1,125,000, which does not appear at all in the ac counts of the previous years. When I rectify the balance by the removal of those new charges appearing on both sides, and by the addition of the charge for for tifications, the account will stand as follows:—In 1859-60 the expenditure was £70,017,000. In 1863-4 it was £66,731,000, fortifications included, showing a de crease, as compared with 1839-60, of £3,286,000. I need not trouble the committee with the comparisons drawn on the same basis for the intermediate years. That may be dis pensed with. I shall have enough of that commodity to present when I am giving full particulars. There still re mains this element, in order to state that case with perfect clearness, that it is also known that in the year 1860 we re ceived, through the providence of our forefathers, a benefit of considerable relief from debt. The permanent annual relief we have been enjoying since 1860 is £2,146,000; but in the year 1859-69, owing to a particular arrangement, the charge on account of these terminable annuities, which dropped altogether in 1860, was increased beyond that amount. As I stated in the budget of 18.59-Go, the charge in that year on account of terminable annuities, which have since ceased, was £2,546,000, Deducting that sum from the expenditure in 1859 -60, for the purpose of comparison with the year 1863-4, and as showing how it stood in rela tion to that relief, it stands at £67,47 1,000. The expendi ture of last year was £66,881,000. That I believe to be a true comparison. In this point of view the expenditure of last year shows some diminution as c,mpared with that of 1859-60. There is an absolute diminution of £649,000, in dependently of the relief from the long annuities, which, although not a very large sum, is worth taking into notice. It is the more material, as this is the first year I am enabled to state to the house that, after allowing for the relief from the cessation of the long annuities, our actual expenditure, including fortifications, is less than it was in 185960. (Hear, hear,) I now come to compare the expenditure of the year which has expired with the revenue of that year, and of course I must go back simply to the exchequer account, in order to explain at this stage the precise effect. The expenditure for the year 1863-64, as it appears in the exchequer account, is £67,056,000 ; the revenue for the same year, as represented in the same account, is £70,208,000, showing a surplus of revenue over expenditure of £3,152,000. But in order to estimate that surplus, it may be necessary to consider the expenditure for fortifications, for although the house made deliberately, and a matter of Palley, a separate arrangement for dealing with that expen diture, yet in point of law it must appear in the balance sheet. The expenditure for fortifications for last year was £BOO,OOO, and if I deduct that amount from the surpus of the £3,152,000, there will still remain a clear surplus of revenue over expenditur e of £2,352,000. Perhaps the com mittee will desire to know in what way the estimates of the revenue have corresponded with the anticipations which last year the house was encouraged to form. Last year I esti mated the revenue at the period oi the Appropriation Act at £6B,l7l,ooo—the actual receipts have been £70,208,000. The surplus, therefore, of the actual receipt beyond the anticipated receipt is £2,037,000. More or less that surplus appears in every branch of tho revenue. l'he customs were estimated at £22,737,000, but they actually amounted to £23,232,000, of an excess of £500,000. The excise was esti mated at £17,624,000, whereas it yielded £ 18 ,207,000. The stamps were estimated at £9,000,000, but they yielded £9,317,000. The income tax was estimated at £8,600,000, but it yielded £9,084,000; and there were other surpluses of small accounts upon remaining items of revenue, with one slight t. xception—unter the bead of China. Ihe house naturally looked with great interest, not only to the aggregate, but to the detailed receipt of revenue from the customs; for whatever may be the case with regard to the excise, the customs are the branch of revenue which Oyes 118 the greatest number of criteria for judging of the condition of the people. (Hear, hear.) The total de crease of customs for last year, as compared with the previ ous year, when the tea duty was is 5d per pound, was esti mated at £1,297,000, whereas the actual decrease was £802,000. Notwithstanding that, the important article of sugar, including molasses, in consequence of the partial scarcity, instead of increasing with the improved condition of the country, shows a positive decrease of £253,000. And again, in that branch of the revenue, the decrease of which I always referred to with satisfaction—l mean the revenue derived from the duty upon corn—it was less in the year just expired than in that which preceded it by no less a sum than £225,000, thereby bearing testimony to the abundance of domestic produce and the moderation of the price at which the first necessary of life was being supplied to all classes of the community. The article of wine shows an increase of ;6101,000, which I conceive to bo a very satisfac tory increase. The article of spirits shows an increase of £285,000. Tobacco shows an increase of between £200,000 and £300,000. The article of tea, which had been estimated to show at the end of the year a loss to the revenue of £1,300,000, showed only an aetual loss of £930,000. 'With regard to the large excess of revenue from excise over the estimate, that has been owing to two causes. Vi ith the partial improvement in the condition of the coun try, the article of spirits—that distilled at home—shows an improvement of £250,000. And the important branch of revenue which we derive from malt, in conse quence of the almost unparalleled excellence of the barley harvest, shows the greatest receipt ever known, and an increase over the previous year of £710,000. That is an augmentation we cannot expect in future years, and the committee must bear in mind that the estimate of the revenue from the excise does not bear the name relation now to the actual revenue which it did before the malt credits were shortened. Before that time, when it was the practice to give from six to eight months' credit for the payment of the malt duty, the effect was that when the Chancellor of the Exchequer made his financial statement he knew what his estimate for malt would be for the coming year. At present he only knows about one-half of it, and on this account there was an element of uncer tainty introduced int i the estimates in this particular article, for which some allowance must be made. The only other article of revenue which I wish to refer to is the China in demnity. It was estimated at £450,000, but the actual re ceipt was £135,000. Sir, if I compare the revenue of the year just passed with the revenue of former years, it is be cause I think that in the growth of the revenue of the coun try we have, upon the whole, a pretty sure test of the growth of its strength end of its resources. (Hear, hear.) Com paring then the revenue for 863.641 with that of the years 1862-63, the result is this—that, although taxes to the ex tent of between £3,000,000 and £4,00 eOOO were remitted, the decrease in the revenue would appear to be no greater than £394,0•.;0. However, that is not precisely correct, for it is necessary to allow for a considerable increase in the two last heads of our receipts, but which ought not to be consi dered properly heads of revenue—l mean the miscellaneoua receipts and the Chinese indemnity. After deducting these two heads, the revenue for the year 1862.63 was £67,850,000; while the revenue for 1863.64, after making a similar deduc tion, stands at £67,173,000. The comparative decrease, therefore, between the two years may be stated at £677,000. But when it is considered that the remission of taxation for 1863-64 was £3,7o3,ooo—(hear)—that the loss anticipated from the remission was £3,343,000, and that the actual loss was only £677,300—it will appear that the recovery in the re venue has been no less tkan £3,026,000. (Cheers.) Bat if we look back further for the purpose of comparing the growth of the revenue of the country, not merely within a twelve month—if we go back to the year 1860-61, since which period we have imposed no new taxes—l do not, of course, take into account charges altogether insignificant —we find that the revenue for 1860-61 showed a gross total of £70,283,000, but, deducting the miscellaneous receipts of which I have spoken, a total of £68,830,000. Well, taking the revenue for '63-64 at £67,176, that shows a decrease in the revenue since 1860-61 of £1,657,000. But then within that period we have taken 3d. from the income tax, which withdraws from the revenue a sum of £3,525,000 ; we have taken off the paper duties, which may be set down at £1,340,000; we have reduced the tea duties, which repre sents a loss to the revenue of £1,660,000 ; while the repeal of the charges upon shipping cost £143,010. Altogether,. therefore, there has been a diminution of taxation to the. extent of £6,638,000 since the year 1860-61, while there has been a decrease in the revenue to the extent only of £1,057,000. (Cheers.) The result is, that during these three years the increase in the revenue has been £5,011,000, or at the rate of £1,670,000 a year. (Cheers.) But if we go back further still, and compare these results with the average revenue of the five years commencing with 1855 e 59, we find that the annual increase in the revenue during those five years has not been so great. As far as I can cal culate, the revenue has grown during these five years, upon the average, £1,233,700 each year. If we go back to 1853, it would appear that the revenue has grown, upon the average, to the full extent of £1,000,000 per annum, and even in the worst years, viz., 1860-61, and 1861-62, the growth has been £900,000. In a better year, such as that which has new e apsed, it has been nearly £2,000,000. Upon the whole, it may be safely calculated that the in crease in the revenue from its own inherent vigour is at a rate exceeding £1,000,000 per annum. (Hear, hear) I will now state the condition of our cash account, and the opera tions touching the National Debt. The balance in the ex chequer on the 31st of March, 1863, was £3,763,000, and on the 31st of March, 1864, they were £7,352,000, which is as ample, though not an excessive amount. With respect to the liquidation of the debt during the year, it has been con siderable, £1,000,000 of exchequer bonds have been paid off, and £1,994,000 of exchequer bills. Besides that, stock and exchequer bills to the extent of £366,000 have been liqui dated from surnlus revenue, making a total of £3,360,000 of the capital of the debt liquidated within the 3 ear. But in dependently of that, the committee should take into view that a large sum is actually paid, in the shape of terminable annuities, towards the liquidation of the debt, representing not interest, but capital, to the extent of £1,400,000 per an num. There are other payments of a minor descripticn to the extent of £205,000, which brings up the net amount of debt liquidated to £4,148,000. (Hear, hear,) As the re sult of the measure passed last year for the conversion of perpetual into terminable annuities, I have to acquaint the committee that we have during the last year converted per petual annuities to the extent of £433,000. As regards the huge total of our debt, it has been always a matter of inte rest to know what is the state of the capital charge as com pared with former periods. I confess I have never been able to acquiesce in the view that, taking into account our great wealth, the national debt was a matter of trifling moment. It appears to me to be a very formidable and inflexible fact, and likely to become much more pave and serious should cur prosperity turn out to be less permanent than most of us are disposed to anticipate. But the actual capital of the national debt at the present moment stands thus. Stock —that is, perpetual annuities—£74o,993,ooo ; Bank debts, £37,645,000—and by Bank debts I mean capi tal sums, not the contract value assigned to stock by Act of Parliament, but capital sums repayable in money—ex chequer bonds, £2,600,000; exchequer bills, £10,526, 000 . Making a total amount of debt of £791,574,000, In'63-'s4 which was the lowest point the debt reached since the close of the revolutionary war—it stood at £769,082,000. The Russian war produced, of course, important changes in these figures, and the debt now stands at £22,492,000 higher than it stood in '53-'54. In '56, immediately and d tte i r t the close of the Russian war, it was .f.:608,108,0001,na1815, now stands, as I have stated, at. L 791, 5 :1 4 0 ( 3 10 9%0 0 , which the maximum point of debt, it was L B -- 1 1 - 180-4 it was charge of the debt was £32,646,00 0 . w th it e h a reduction of of £6,436,C00 ; therefore L s e 2 0 6 7 2 5 11 a ,000, decreaseshowoi showing La 69,46 decreases,ooo. in the In 11815, annualthe nhannualare £69,465,000 against capital, w of a great and the results of the efforts and of the experience its Parliament, throughout we stan d SLta6n,4oo,ooo against charge, nation, of its Ministers, an that d its stand with a capital of half-a-century, are for a i t n h e f f o u r t u r t e h , e a n p d r w e s i e t n h t a n b annual 4 0 ' .- 000. (Hear, hear.) Th e genera l £791,000,000 fac m in u g st charge which £26,000,000 and £26,50 , s trade m a o n fl mainly thecountry,depend, is certainlyupo n which o f vigouro ur future state prosperity t m e t strength. 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